Diabetes a major factor behind declining life expectancy in rural areas

Dr. Ivan Melendez, Hidalgo County Health Authority:

Oh, my God, the examples are too numerous to count. You imagine, if you will, if you lived in a county where you were one or two always of the most poverty-stricken counties in the entire country.

So we are the most obese, the most diabetic, most hypertensive, the poorest, and an average education level of eighth grade.

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